“The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.” WayAmountAbsenceChiefsIntimateCulinaryChickensPiePhilosophicHistory Of ScienceScientific Knowledge Book:The Teaching of the History of Science Source: The Teaching of the History of Science
“Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.” WaySeemsCausesProgressAchievementFundamentalsDeeperImmortal Book:A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece Source: A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece
“It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.” WayGivingMindIdeasWholeWould BeCommonCreditFoolishCommon SenseConceptionSubconsciousFifthPartingGeometryHistory Of ScienceEuclid Author:George Sarton
